CRE in Achieving Health Equity for All People with Disabilities (AHEAD)

Centre for Research Excellence in Achieving Health Equity for All People with Disabilities (AHEAD) AHEAD envisions a world where disability-inclusive research generates new evidence-based solutions that dismantle barriers and open new opportunities to ensure health equity is an enduring reality for all people with disabilities. AHEAD will provide innovative solutions that address the social and structural determinants of health for people with disabilities, enhance health and social systems and ensure resources are used efficiently and effectively. AHEAD will deliver qualitative and quantitative research evidence on what works, informed by lived experience, predictive analytics to anticipate the effects of potential solutions, trials, the evaluation of policy changes and continuous monitoring. AHEAD will enhance health equity by implementing sustainable, co-designed solutions that address the social determinants of health for people with disabilities and are shaped through our expanded research capacity and new innovative research infrastructure.